$130,000 - $180,000 USD yearly
Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor laser and gain chips
Originally posted 5 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
The Sr. Manager, Fab Quality Engineering serves as the senior quality leader within SPP Operations and is responsible for building and leading the manufacturing quality organization across both fabrication facilities. The role supports Epitaxial Growth, Wafer Fabrication, Bar Processing, Chip Processing, and Test Operations for Indium Phosphide (InP) semiconductor laser and gain chips.
What you'll do
- Build and lead the fab quality organization across two fabrication facilities, recruiting and managing quality inspectors, technicians, and quality engineers.
- Establish incoming inspection processes, acceptance criteria, and material-control procedures for III-V substrates, epitaxial source materials, specialty gases, precious metals, and process chemicals.
- Implement and maintain manufacturing quality systems including Statistical Process Control (SPC), CAPA, Non-Conforming Material Report (NCMR) processes, FMEA, ESD control, and process control plans.
- Lead investigations of manufacturing quality excursions, containment protocols, and process escapes in partnership with Process Engineering and Product Engineering.
- Monitor process capability (Cp/Cpk), lead measurement system capability (MSA) activities, and support tool and process qualifications to reduce defects, scrap, and rework.
- Maintain audit readiness across facilities, supporting internal, customer, and ISO audits as well as cleanroom environmental monitoring and contamination-control initiatives.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Materials Science, Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 7+ years of manufacturing quality experience within wafer fabrication, photonics, compound semiconductor, or related advanced manufacturing environments.
- 3+ years of people leadership experience managing quality teams.
- Strong working knowledge of SPC, CAPA, NCMR, FMEA, Control Plans, MSA, and manufacturing quality systems.
- Demonstrated experience leading root-cause investigations, corrective-action programs, and supporting semiconductor wafer fabrication operations.
Nice to have
- Experience in wafer-fab quality within silicon semiconductor, compound semiconductor, photonics, III-V semiconductor, optoelectronics, or optical communications manufacturing environments.
- Experience supporting epitaxial growth operations.
- Experience building or scaling manufacturing quality organizations within multi-site manufacturing environments.
- Experience with supplier-quality programs and semiconductor MES systems.
- Experience operating in evolving, high-mix manufacturing environments with limited historical data.
Skills: quality engineering, SPC, CAPA, FMEA, wafer fabrication, InP
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 44-day median for Reliability Engineering roles.
Reliability Engineering · Reliability Engineering
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Open roles in category
519
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Median days open
44 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$150k
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| Metric | Semtech | All employers we track in this specialty (519 roles · 79 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 6 | 519 |
| Open roles in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family | 23 | 10067 · 117 employers |
| Median days open | 11 d | 44 d (−33 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $150k |
Skills observed across this category: quality engineering, SPC, CAPA, FMEA, wafer fabrication, InP
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 75 open roles · median 66 d
- Infineon Technologies · 41 open roles · median 45 d
- Renesas Electronics · 25 open roles · median 22 d
- onsemi · 21 open roles · median 62 d
- Analog Devices · 17 open roles · median 71 d
- Intel Corporation · 17 open roles · median 56 d
How we counted: 519 open Reliability Engineering (Reliability Engineering) roles from 79 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 5 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Process, Fab & Equipment family row. Figures refresh nightly.